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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1880
Page
1
A reflective piece urges avoiding religious attack while promoting virtue through steadfast labor and good temper. It counsels cheerful thoughts, self-restraint in speech, and pursuing excellence to silence critics. It extols childlike joy, humane gentleness, and soft, patient instruction as the ideal to cherish and sustain.
An elderly Laura waits in quiet on Sunday while her husband travels. A sudden twist of fate leaves her lost in a May prairie until Ted, a brave boy, finds her and helps guide them home by night with fire and grit. The act earns Ted a place of cherished love in the Amberley family.
Laura and Algernon Amberley on a honeymoon trip weigh guardianship of three orphan children. Ted, an awkward older boy, and Nellie, a pretty three year old, pose competing appeals as the couple debates which child to adopt. Ted shows bashful curiosity toward Laura as they journey through prairie country.
A noted historical line states that caps and hats came into general use around the year 1449 marking a shift in everyday dress. The claim reflects medieval headwear adoption and social fashion trends of late 15th century Europe.
The text argues every family cook should apply physiology and chemistry to meal preparation to support physical growth, health, and balance of energy. It compares cooking to science, noting care in nutrients from earth, air, and sea shapes bone and muscle, and links kitchen skill to humanity’s progress and child development.
A well dressed pad salesman enters an office, pitches four pads Lung liver stomach kidney and later heart throat and ear pads. The busy writer refuses but the salesman pressures with pulse tests and ailments. The scene ends with the pads wandering off to seek new victims.
A humorous anecdote recalls Rev Sidney Smith forgetting his own name and mistaking a turnpike charge for paying for a horse. The preacher mistakenly wondered if he was a dissenter or layman, then remembered his identity. A clergyman misinterprets a road turnpike payment as horse fare, believing he is mounted.
A table summarizes tree lifespans from concentric annual rings. Values include Judas tree 300 years, elm 335, ivy 450, maple 416, white birch 576, orange 630, evergreen cypress 800, olive 800, walnut 900, oriental plane 1,000, lime 1,100, fir 1,206, cedar of Lebanon 2,000, taxodium distichum 1,000 to 3,200 years.
A Long Island fisherman laments winter cod fishing conditions and explains chumming, then details a bustling day at sea with multiple boats, gear, and catch. The piece shifts to fashion critique and a historical vignette on steel pen maker Joseph Gillett, then to a whale exhibition describing size, value, and auction details at a New York venue.
Potts of Berks County Pennsylvania was fed a green nineteen inch snake that entered his mouth and stomach while he slept under a tree. Doctors used steam milk inhalation and a rope assisted extraction, Potts nearly died but recovered after immediate treatment and care.
Harkins' daughter visits Denton's butcher shop and compliments a butcher as refined. He responds with florid praise comparing the steak to tender love. The girl asks the meaning and reveals she was given taffy, prompting a sharp rebuke from Harkins.
Postal notices emphasize unique stamp usage as a requirement for mail delivery. The rule restricts stamps to a single use to ensure authenticity and prevent reuse across correspondence.
A halved, glossy black leviathan lies on a float as a man stands on its hump. Onlookers file past while an exhibitor details the whale’s anatomy including jaws, whalebone, scars, and the spout hole. He explains the creature was killed by bomb lances, not harpoons, and warns against disrupting the exhibit.
An elder native woman near Joshua Peters's at San Luis Rey is reported to be 124 years old. Her hair recently revived to black from white and she remains in a second childhood with childlike speech and memory. She recalls the 1769 Mission era when Mission Fathers built the San Diego Mission and soldiers pursued Indians. vaqueros allegedly strangled her infant during capture. W. B. Couts and other San Luis Rey residents affirm her age.
Surgeon Major H. W. Bellew reports Kaffiristan spans about 150 miles by 50 to 60, with Hindu Kush bounds to the north and varied eastern and western borders near Panjshir. The region is rugged and deeply valleied, with no room to gallop a horse according to a native informant.
The Chadds Ford Club in Pennsylvania offers prizes to county youths age seventeen and under who raise the most corn from one eighth of an acre in 1880. Boys compete for corn and girls for butter, with records of methods and costs kept and shown alongside the exhibits. The program aims to train young people in farming practices and outcomes.
A local report claims an enterprising man posed as a woman to sell corsets, was arrested for masquerading, and appeared before a magistrate accused of deceiving the community. The piece ends with a tongue in cheek admonition about pronouns and behavior.
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